Testing for environmental contaminants in wastewater biosolids


Every year waste treatment facilities in the United States process more than eight million tons of semi-solid sewage called biosolids — about half of which is recycled into fertilizer and spread on crop land. The practice helps solve storage issues and produces revenue to support the treatment plants, but what else is being spread in that sludge?


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